Shortcuts

I can hear the music.

It's time for Shortcuts Corner.

all right welcome to shortcuts corner this is the part of the show where you write in with your shortcuts requests and rose murray orchard our shortcuts expert gives a response rose do you have anything for us this week

Well, as you can see, my iPhone Duo is opening perfectly here in my hands.

And they needed someone who had experience with third-party APIs, which I had had through ZeriKit.

And they said, can you pair up with these two newbie, freshly acquired people, Ari and Conrad, and can you sort of hold their hand through this yearly cycle together? to turn their app into what is now known as Shortcuts.

And thus ensued the most wacky and exciting year of my life, turning it into an app.

And then I got to demo it on stage at DubDub.

excited when, you know, ChatGPT was announced, right? I had started working on Universal Search.

And then I started working on Siri.

And then I worked with them on Shortcuts.

And those are all like really key ingredients in like the magical assistant that we've always been promised.

You could be wildly colorful and vibrant or very simple and minimalist.

Basically, to create a minimalist icon for your home screen, you need to use Apple's Shortcuts app.

Using Shortcuts, you can create an additional icon that will open up the app of your choice.

So to create a custom icon, you first want to start a new shortcut.

Search nothing and add that command first.

Exactly.

The foundational step is building that solo habit, and the mechanism that unlocks this on iOS twenty-seven is this wild feature inside the Shortcuts app called Describe a Shortcut.

Man, that feature is a massive leap forward.

It really is.

Exactly.

So instead of leaving it there, I'd use plain language to build my first automation, right?

You literally just tell the Shortcuts app, "Take the person I just talked to, add them to contacts if they aren't already there, create a reminder for three days from now titled Follow Up with their name."

Wow.

It's a very good shirt.

Made a Shortcuts pillow just to troll you.

That pillow is amazing.

That's

pretty nice.

That's the best the Shortcuts logo has ever looked in its entire history.

That's very good.

But I have not brought you here to talk about Shortcuts.

I can hear the music.

It's time for Shortcuts Corner.

Oh, welcome to Shortcuts Corner.

You caught me.

This is the part of the show where you write in with your shortcuts requests and Rosemary Orchard, our shortcuts expert, provides a response this week because we're talking about home sweet home kit.

We love, love, love to see it.

All righty, folks.

If you have Shortcuts Corner requests that you would like to ask Rosemary about, you can email us iostoday at twit.tv is how you get in touch.

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shortcut，是啦，shortcut，它都，它都写得出来了开始 [笑声]，但是都，这条路都还差很远。所以我就觉得，如果大家对这只有兴趣呢，一来，它广东话未可以的，那么二来呢，它的价钱也都不是特别便宜。大家可以观望下它究竟做到什么先，那个功能的，就是适合你呢，我觉得先-先买都未迟。因为我其实有兴趣的这只东西，我觉得呢用来做 FaceTime 呢，应该不错，不用拿电脑或者拿手机来做 FaceTime，或者拿部，呃-

或者，或者-

或者是呢-

Yeah.

But my biggest issue was shortcuts.

When I updated to Raycast version two, if I go to the Raycast settings and go to Apple Shortcuts, nothing showed up.

I didn't see any shortcuts here.

There was just a toggle, like turn on shortcuts or not.

Yeah.

And then, uh, just yesterday, one of their developers, who I'll link this X post, his name is Adil, and he actually was previously at Apple, now at Raycast.

He kinda gave a little background about what happened, which is that the only way to get everything about Apple Shortcuts is using Apple events, and you have to fetch them one shortcut at a time at a cost of 60 milliseconds per shortcut.